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On the recordOctober 12, 2011
the bottom line is the American people believe that money that we take from them should not be given to someone else to spend
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Republican · Florida

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Ros-Lehtinen argues against giving U.N. authority over U.S. taxpayer money.

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